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Audio

      
American Song American roots music and pre-1960 popular songs What's new Help
Classical Music Library Western classical music What's new Help
Contemporary World Music Genres from all regions around the globe What's new Help
DRAM Contemporary American classical music What's new Help
Jazz Music Library Jazz What's new Help
Naxos Music Library Jazz Jazz  What's new Help
Naxos Music Library Western classical music What's new Help 
Smithsonian Global Sound World music, including Smithsonian Folkways releases What's new Help
       

  Video

Medici.tv Live and archived performances, documentaries and artist profiles What's new Help
Naxos Video Library Concerts, operas, ballets, and documentaries   Help
Opera in Video Staged productions, interviews, and documentaries What's new Help
Dance in Video Performances, coaching sessions, interviews, and more What's new Help

Free online audio resources

Historical music recordings

The National Jukebox (Library of Congress--see all online sound recording collections at the Library of Congress)
The Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Belfer Cylinders (Syracuse University)
The Virtual Gramophone (National Library of Canada)
Stradivari Quartet/Iowa String Quartet (University of Iowa)

Downloads for sampling, mashing, podcasting

Free Music Archive
CC mixter
Opsound
Jamendo
Free Sound Effects

Spoken words

American Leaders Speak (recordings from World War 1 and the 1920 election at the Library of Congress)
U.S. History Out Loud
Supreme Court of the United States Audio Archives
The Poetry Archive
Internet Poetry Archive (University of North Carolina)

Miscellany

Historic Naval Sound & Video
Bug Bytes (digitized insect sounds)
Macaulay Library audio archive of biodiversity